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Bio-based buildings: “The route to market would be a cautious one”

By Richard Francis

There is no question that there is a newfound interest in building materials that are more local, minimally processed, regenerative, and health-promoting. In many respects, the built environment seems to be “catching up” with credentials promoted in other industries.

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AYA 2024 shortlists: Private Housing Architect of the Year

In a series celebrating BD’s Architect of the Year Awards finalists, we look at the Private Housing Architect of the Year shortlist

  • What made this project… Voysey House by dMFK

  • Bio-based buildings: ‘Nature is the template for what we increasingly expect from building operations’

  • CPD 14 2024: Engaging BIM to build a more connected built environment

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How affordable housing became a critical US election issue

Housing becomes a key election issue as Democrats focus on affordability and urban development across the U.S., writes Chris Fogarty

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  • On-demand case study: Alex Smith, Partner, Sheppard Robson on Pall Mall Court

  • On-demand case study: Stuart Fraser, partner, Make Architects on the New Bailey masterplan

  • On-demand case study: Michael Riley, architect director, BDP on Warwick University

Architect of the Year Awards 2024

  • AYA 2024 shortlists: Private Housing Architect of the Year

  • What made this project… Brighton Dome by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

  • AYA 2024 shortlists: One Off Small Project of the Year

  • AYA 2024 shortlists: Public and Social Housing Architect of the Year

  • AYA 2024 shortlists: Young Architect of the Year, sponsored by Ryno

  • AYA 2024 shortlists: WA100 International Architect of the Year

  • What made this project… Voysey House by dMFK

  • AYA 2024 shortlists: Social Value Award

  • AYA 2024 shortlists: Retail and Leisure Architect of the Year

  • AYA 2024 shortlists: Public Building Architect of the Year

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • LDA and Matt+Fiona collaborate with youth group on HS2 ‘meanwhile use’ community garden

  • From the ground up: Ackroyd Lowrie on a mission to turn school leavers into architects with real work experience

  • Creating communities for all: Jenny Buterchi on PRP’s vision for age-inclusive living

  • Building communities, not just homes: The case for intergenerational living

  • How Essex teenagers are shaping their community with a little help from MATT+FIONA

  • Housing providers and charities urge government to adopt accessibility standards for new-build homes

  • Meet Fern the diplodocus, star of a Natural History Museum garden redesign

  • ‘A glimpse of new horizons’: Cooke Fawcett’s reworking of Cockpit’s craft incubator

  • In pictures: GPAD’s refurbished north London pavilion

  • V&A displays children’s visions of a London cityscape adapted to climate change

In Pictures

  • Fosters completes building for Chinese tech firm

  • BakerBrown retrofit transforms 19th-century cottage into carbon-negative home

  • Sydney Central Station upgrade and metro interchange completes

  • John McAslan + Partners completes new Sydney metro station

  • dMFK completes 201 Bishopsgate

  • Architecture for London completes grade II-listed Barnsbury House

  • Nissen Richards Studio’s new housing complex is its largest project to date

  • Clementine Blakemore fires up creativity with renovation of London potter’s home and studio

  • Kevin Haley Studio unveils Berners Bar at the Business Design Centre

  • Robson Warren Architects completes restoration of West End landmark

Reviews

  • The Mexican connection: How Sordo Madaleno built a global practice across the generations

  • BD Film Club: Empire of Light revisited

  • Modern Buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich: London 1950-2000

  • Dhaka Architectural Guide: ‘A city changing at a dizzying speed’

  • Londoners Making London: ‘There is a gap in physical space that creative, determined people fill’

  • Inclusion Emergency: ‘An emergency that we can no longer afford to ignore’

  • Carlos Moreno’s 15-Minute City: Visionary urbanism or just recycled ideas?

  • Creatives, Assemble! Architecture rooms at the RA Summer Exhibition 2024

  • Five Critical Essays on Architectural Ethics: A reinvigoration of ethical debate with no trigger warnings

  • Review | Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Buildings

WA100 2024

  • WA100 2024: Architects expect patchy international growth

  • WA100 2024: The big list

  • WA100 2024: Digital edition

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SuDS and nutrient neutrality: A combined approach to sustainable housing development

2024-09-16T05:00:00+01:00By

Balancing the need for new homes and protecting water quality is a challenge with limited guidance available. Etisang Abraham explains measures that could help housebuilders

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Designing with empathy: The human-centred approach to architecture

2024-09-13T05:00:00+01:00By

Last year, NVB won BD’s Education Architect of the Year Award. Here, practice director James McGillivray expands on the practice’s mantra: if you don’t understand people, you cannot design for them

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The need for politicians who understand the built environment has never been greater

2024-09-12T06:00:00+01:00By

Will the new intake of MPs finally be mobilised and given positions where they can use their knowledge and experience? Emma Dent Coad has her doubts

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How affordable housing became a critical US election issue

2024-09-10T05:00:00+01:00By

Housing becomes a key election issue as Democrats focus on affordability and urban development across the U.S., writes Chris Fogarty

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When does high-density housing become incompatible with family living?

2024-09-09T05:00:00+01:00By 4 comments

The redevelopment of Ladywood raises critical questions about urban density and the sustainability of community living, writes Joe Holyoak

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Seven years after Grenfell: We have come a long way, but there is still a huge amount to do

2024-09-06T05:00:00+01:00By 1 comments

Andrew Mellor reflects on the Grenfell Inquiry’s demand for radical reforms. The message is clear: urgent action is needed to protect lives

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  • A decade in the making: Norton Folgate’s controversial redevelopment unveiled

  • ‘A glimpse of new horizons’: Cooke Fawcett’s reworking of Cockpit’s craft incubator

  • A harmonious blend of context and concept: Mass Studies reimagines the Serpentine Pavilion

  • Under The Big Roof… Charity unites generations and nurtures skills that last a lifetime

  • London College of Fashion strikes a pose with new campus by Allies & Morrison

  • River Wing by Witherford Watson Mann: 'This is the closest we've come to the structure being the architecture'

  • Jankes Barn by Lynch Architects: ‘We like to call it a barn non-conversion’

  • How Corstorphine & Wright are reimagining Bloomsbury's Victoria House as a life sciences hub

  • ‘A nightclub on a massive scale’: touring Populous’ £365m Co-op Live arena

  • Building study: Levitt Bernstein’s Bristol Beacon